Automatic Restaurant & Cafeteria/Grill, Abu Dhabi

How strange that my first food blog is going to come from Abu Dhabi! I can't sleep now and since I've got nothing to do in my hotel room, I thought that I might as well write about my dinner tonight.

My colleague and I decided to check out the mall near our hotel call Al Mariah Mall (perhaps the owner is a big fan of Mariah Carey? =p) and I noticed this very peculiar named restaurant...

Automatic Restaurant & Cafeteria

Yes, it's called Automatic. I had to check it to make sure I was reading it right. For some reasons, visions of robot waiters or laundry machines came to mind when I confirmed the name of the restaurant.

Anyway, despite having had lots of meat for the last couple of days we have been in Abu Dhabi, we decided to check this place out as there were only fast food joints nearby and we were dead-tired already.

When having dinner the night before, I saw a lot of people order this multi-coloured drink and was wondering what it was, so when I saw something similar in the menu, I had to give it a try.

Whoa... Psychedelic mocktail dude...
(Well, it would have been if the camera picked up the different colours...)

Turns out it was just a Fruit Cocktail (DHS12... which is about RM12). It's a mixture of avocado, strawberry, mango and javata. It was sweet... and weird... It was basically just a fruit smoothie, so it would have probably been better if I just drank it layered as it was and not mix it... =p

As we were still really full from all the meat eating, my colleague and I decided to split an Automatic Mix Gril (DHS30).

Mmm... Meaaaat....

The spread was not much, but just nice for the two of us who have been on meat overload for the last 3 days we have been here. Just some 2 types of grilled chicken, lamb kebab and some gizzard (which I gave to my colleague since I hate the stuff... =p ). Oh and of course the necessary Lebanese bread and super pickled vegies.

Other than the gizzards (which my colleague liked), I thought this dish was tasty and well worth the DHS30.

Watch out for the waiter though, who will Automatically (Ha ha ha!) pour you water from a DHS4 bottle of mineral water without asking if you don't stop him.

Automatic Restaurant & Cafeteria
Al Mariah Mall (has a big McD sign at the side of the building) and KFC opposite
Corner of Hamdan and Nadja Streets
Abu Dhabi

Rating: 3 babble bites